Values are qualities or traits that you consider worthwhile.
They represent your key priorities and deeply held driving forces and beliefs.
Your values are what bring to heart the meaning in your life.
They can be equated to bookends which inform your actions and your desires toward living a deep and fulfilling existence.
Also, they are like a measuring tool that allows you know when things are off track and provide an anchor on which to connect your daily choices to.
Understanding what your values are concerning life, relationships, work and yourself will let you make more grounded decisions and support you in committing yourself to the decisions that you make.
Whether you are moving into a new relationship or into a new job, connecting this process to your core values can bring you the much needed clarification and offer you a smooth and successful path to the next stage in your life.
Values include what lights you up, what, if taken away, could leave you less than whole, what contributes to your sense of well being, what excites you from the within, what is present when synergy is present in your life.
Your values might not be visible but their effects and impact are.
It is important to live your values everyday. When you aren’t living your values it is certain that disharmony will be lurking. It is imperative that you identify your key values, and live them like breathe on a daily basis for they keep you in.
When you live your values, you don’t live incongruent to them.
Living your values isn’t just about having unrealistic expectations of yourself or being super human. It ironically provides a sense of freedom that most people dream about.
If you choose to live your values, you will often be confronted by your humanness.
However, it is in these moments that an opportunity presents itself to learn, realign, to have compassion and move forward effectively.
In short, your values will:
Represent who you are
Set you on your path
Keep you on track
Your biggest measurement for success is living life consistent with your own values
The major benefit of knowing what your values are is that you will achieve tremendous clarity and focus.
However, you must eventually use this newfound clarity to make steady decisions and take committed actions.
Living your values everyday is one of the most influential tools available to you to assist you be the person that you want to be, to help you lead and influence others and to help you realize your goals and dreams.
